Ahmedabad, July 13: Recently, there have been two more cases of swine flu in Ahmedabad. With that, the number of swine flu cases in the city has reached four.
The two girls, suspected of swine flu, were among the ten girls – all aged between 15 and 16 years – who were part of a group of 40 Indian students, sent to the US in August
2008, through an exchange programme facilitated by the All Friend’s Society (AFS). These students belonged to Maharashtra (9), Gujarat (18), Karnataka (1), Tamil Nadu
(7) and Delhi (5).
All these girls reached Delhi on July 4 and stayed there for three days. Then they traveled back to Ahmedabad on July 7. Two girls complained of H1N1-like symptoms and were quarantined at the Civil Hospital. Their blood samples were sent to National Institute of Communicable Disease (NICD) in New Delhi for testing.
Principal Secretary, health and family welfare, Ravi Saxena said: “Results of one more girl isolated from the group and the caretaker isolated at civil hospital Ahmedabad, are both found positive by NICD.”
The two confirmed cases along with the two suspected cases have been quarantined at the Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad.
—-Agencies